MAGANA’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2015
7 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on 45 Cal. 2d 872 - Sefton v. Sefton · Hendrix v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case, given the respondent's misrepresentations, we find that justice would be better served by not relating the [annulment] decree back for immigration purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“emphasized that no fraud, misrepresentation, or manipulation of the immigration laws had been alleged in that case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the relation back doctrine only where to do so would bring about a more just result”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.